The Race Against the Nazis and the Atomic Bomb

German scientists were the first to split the atom in January 1939./nOppenheimer initially believed fission was impossible but later oversaw the creation of a bomb built on fission technology./nThe German scientists were ahead of American scientists in the development of atomic weapons during World War II./nJewish scientists chose to work on the project to prevent the Nazis from obtaining atomic weapons./nThe Nazis ultimately did not succeed in building an atomic weapon.